This update is a short one since it’s a short week for schools in Massachusetts and my kids will be home all day today.

I’d offer up a warm New England welcome to Linus Stoltz, but we all know such a thing doesn’t really exist. So Linus, have a cold, foggy welcome I guess. In all seriousness, the eMOLT team is very excited that Linus is coming over from the West Coast to join CFRF in Rhode Island as their data manager. He has a bunch of experience working with the crab industry to monitor dissolved oxygen and temperature using very similar technology to what’s in use in DMF’s Cape Cod Bay Study Fleet and those of you in eMOLT with DO sensors and Lowell Deck Data Hubs. We’re looking forward to improving the data pipelines between our programs so that all the information you collect on the water will be that much more valuable to scientists.

We continue to work with the team at Lowell to merge deckbox software. As mentioned in last week’s email, here’s a look at the dimming feature we’re testing with our hardware.

Additionally, we are continuing our effort to make sure the data from eMOLT can be put to use in a range of applications. In this effort, we are also working with other research groups inside NOAA to make sure taxpayer funded data collections are available to the public. Progress on this front isn’t always quick because the amount of red tape (even internal) to go through is substantial, but we are making progress. The 2022 non-realtime eMOLT data were supposed to go live online today, but that’s been pushed back to next week. In the meantime, the data from the last 20 years are available on the NEFSC ERDDAP server here.